Kathleen Baltra is the Managing Director of Municipals, with more than two decades of industry experience across multiple product lines. One of the founding members of the firm. Ms. Baltra has served as the primary municipal trader since inception, overseeing the municipal sales and trading team since 2021. In 2024, Ms. Baltra was promoted to […]
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U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Jeffery Barrett is a 20-year reservist and a former Philadelphia public school teacher. Protecting our country’s interest over these last 20 years of conflict has extracted a great toll from the U.S. Armed Forces. Often overlooked by our general population, but never forgotten by the service member, have been the […]
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Rich Beames is a Director of Municipal Sales at Bancroft Capital. Mr. Beames is a graduate of Stanford University and began his employment in the securities industry in 1983 at PaineWebber. A California native, Rich has worked in San Francisco his entire career. Rich spent 13 years at Stone & Youngberg as sales manager and […]
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Karl Biggers is a Managing Director and public finance investment banker in Dallas, Texas. With nearly 30 years of experience in the industry as a banker and financial advisor, he brings to the table considerable knowledge of the market, having worked with many of the largest issuers in the State. Mr. Biggers has experience in […]
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Bill Carabasi joins Bancroft Capital with 37 years of Fixed Income and Municipal Bond experience in both sales and trading. Carabasi started his career at Kidder, Peabody & Co. in June of 1981, and most recently spent 27 years with George K. Baum & Company where he focused on the municipal market. Mr. Carabasi grew […]
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Alix Cethoute has joins Bancroft as a Municipal Bond Underwriter. He will be responsible for bringing competitive and negotiated new issues to market. He has more than three decades in the municipal bond industry, holds a BS in Accounting from the University of Texas at Dallas, and holds FINRA Series 7, 50, 53 & 63 […]
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Alix Jean Cethoute II joined Bancroft Capital in 2025 on the firm’s municipal underwriting desk. Cethoute, who goes by AJ, is based in Dallas and works with the underwriting and sales team in support of the competitive bidding. Cethoute comes to Bancroft from Fidelity, where he spent the last three years on the client service […]
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Sergeant Ryan D’Alessandro is a former United States Army Non-Commissioned Officer. He spent three years in the Marine Corps Reserve Component, before completing his intra-service transfer to follow his desire to become a Green Beret in the U.S. Army. He completed USA basic training and airborne school before traveling to Fort Bragg for selection. Due […]
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Head of Investment Banking Jason Diamond brings 30-plus years of industry experience to Bancroft Capital. Previously, he served as Head of Investment Banking at both Spartan Capital Securities (4 years) and Drexel Hamilton (6 years), where he specialized in transactions for both public and private companies including initial public offerings, uplistings, registered direct equity offerings, […]
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Patrick Doherty is a graduate of the Veteran Training Program (VTP), and Vice President of the Municipals Team. former Sergeant in the U.S. Army and Paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division. While on deployment in Iraq, Patrick earned his Combat Infantryman Badge (“CIB”) as well as several unit and personal citations for outstanding achievement. After […]
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